Language: French (Français)
Our translations: ENG ITA
Murmure autour de ma nacelle,
Douce mer dont les flots chéris,
Ainsi qu'une amante fidèle,
Jettent une plainte eternelle
Sur ces poétique débris.
Que j'aime à flotter sur ton onde,
À l'heure où du haut du rocher
L'oranger, la vigne féconde,
Versent sur ta vague profonde
Une ombre propice au nocher!
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Ah! berce, berce, berce encore,
Berce pour la dernière fois,
Berce cet enfant qui t'adore,
Et qui depuis sa tendre aurore
N'a rêvé que l'onde et les bois!
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De l'infini sublime image,
De flots en flots l'oeil emporté
Te suit en vain de plage en plage,
L'esprit cherche en vain ton rivage,
Comme ceux de l'éternité.
Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1,2,5,9 of the original text.
Note: the Unger score has "Jettant" in stanza 1, line 4, word 1, in all repetitions.
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- ENG English (Laura Stanfield Prichard) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Enrico Magnani) , "Dolce mare", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Line count: 90
Word count: 502
Language: English after the French (Français)
Murmur around my skiff,
Gentle seas, whose dear waves,
Like a faithful lover,
Throw an eternal moan
Over her poetic debris.
How I love to float on your swells,
At the hour where from on the top of the rock
The orange tree, and the fecund vine,
Pour onto that deep billow
A favorable shadow for the ferryman!
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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1,2,5,9 of the original text.
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